The Facebook Phone Is Here, Named “Buffy” And Will Run Google’s Android OS (REPORT)

Well, it’s here! AllThingsD reports that the much rumored Facebook Phone is going to be real. The technology website reports that the social-networking company, Facebook, is currently working with a cell phone manufacturer to build its own phone.


The phone will be called Buffy and it’s expected to be launched in the next 12-18 months. According to the report, the phone is “planned to run on a modified version of Android that Facebook has tweaked heavily to deeply integrate its services, as well as to support HTML5 as a platform for applications, according to sources familiar with the project.”
AllThingsD:

After years of considering how to best get into the phone business, Facebook has tapped Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to build a smartphone that has the social network integrated at the core of its being.

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